Saturday, 28 May 2016

NUMA implementation has gone through several phases of Development in vSphere. At first, it was only responsible for initial placement of VMs, then its functionality was extended with dynamic balancing. In vSphere 5 VMware has presented support of Wide-VMs by exposing NUMA architecture to virtual machines.

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Yep, C# client will no longer be available in the next releases of vSphere.

VMware have been giving a pretty clear signals in the last major vSphere releases that C# client would be gone soon, but nobody knew when exactly it was going to happen. However, when SRM and VUM were moved to web client in vSphere 6 it was obvious C# client's days are numbered.

Probably it could have been done a couple of years ago, but first Web client wasn't good enough due to performance issues. It also lacked integration with other VMware solutions and there was no replacement of C# client for standalone ESXi hosts.

Today VMware have moved its plugins (SRM, VUM) to the Web client and other VMware partners are sailing in the same direction. It also presented new embedded HTML5 Host client for ESXi hosts, which has feature parity with C# client for standalone hosts.

Latest feature support – WC is the only interface to support all new features

As a short-term goal I think VMware will be focusing on fixing Client Integration Plugin which causes most of the issues with Web client - people having issues with OVF import, browsing datastores. It also doesn't work on Mac.

The long term goal would be to have a single ultimate client for vSphere and ESXi hosts. That's what actually VMware is doing right now by trying to replace Flash Web client with HTML5. You can already have a preview of H5 Web Client for vSphere - it exists as a Fling.

It has to be noted that The C# client will be kept in all current platforms.

You can read the official announcement here and that's where you can leave your feedback.